The Legal Dad Team

When your time with your children and your future are on the line, you need a lawyer who will stand up and fight for you. Hagop is that lawyer.

Hagop is a passionate and relentless litigator who fights hard to protect his clients. He pairs a street-tough approach with careful, experience-driven analysis to get meaningful results. At The Legal Dad, Hagop represents fathers in Minnesota family law matters, including custody and parenting time, divorce, and child support.

Hagop built his foundation working as a contractor for various United States Attorney’s Offices. After law school, he spent nearly four years supporting forfeiture matters at the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of New York and the District of Colorado, working with law enforcement agencies to identify and trace assets. He then spent nearly three years with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, supporting complex federal fraud and money laundering prosecutions.

In 2021, Hagop returned to Minnesota and practiced criminal defense in western Minnesota. From 2022 to 2026, Hagop handled a broad range of civil litigation on both sides of the courtroom. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in family law, personal injury, employment, contract, probate, and real property disputes. Because he has worked on both sides, Hagop knows how opposing counsel thinks, and he uses that knowledge to stay a step ahead.

Hagop earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from the University of and his Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law. He has been licensed to practice law in Minnesota since 2015 and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.